Reading, listening to, and questioning America... from the southern Great Plains

Bye, Grover! Don't let the door hit your butt, Sen. McCain!

Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) is out with a new plan
he says could help the nation avert the fiscal cliff and raise over a
trillion dollars in new revenue by capping deductions, implementing “a
chained consumer price index,” partially privatizing Medicare and
raising the retirement age.

During an appearance on CBS This Morning,
Corker indicated that he is flexible on raising marginal tax rates and
joined a growing number of Republicans who have publicly broken from
Grover Norquist’s no-tax pledge. ...Think Progress

And the increasingly silly Senator McCain is backing away from his snark hunt.

Shortly after Romney conceded his loss earlier this month, McCain set
his sites on UN Ambassador Susan Rice, a likely nominee to succeed
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. Pointing to several television
appearances where Rice communicated the intelligence community’s as-yet imperfect understanding
of what happened during the Benghazi attacks, McCain promised that “I
will do everything in my power to block her from becoming Secretary of
State.”
On Fox News Sunday this morning, however, McCain sang a much more conciliatory tune, backing off his hardline opposition to Rice ... Think Progress